Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miriam Toews

With my father and sister being very depressed for most of their lives, it was incumbent on me to try to make them laugh, in this ridiculous way. They were the wittiest people I knew, but to get a smile from them was like winning the lottery.

Kay Redfield Jamison

In some cases, some people do get depressed in the middle of their grief, and they really need to be treated for depression.

Willa Ford

It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you're gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself 'God I'm in love.'

Vince Farrell

Those are all trading around 12 times earnings and have given us very good earnings growth in a depressed pricing environment, ... And I think the pricing is improving for those companies.

Al Goldman

On one side, we've got pretty good economic fundamentals. On the either side, we have all the problems that are keeping everybody depressed -- Iraq, Iran, the price of oil.

Mark Schultz

I lost in the 1988 Olympics, and I was pretty depressed for about eight years. I quit wrestling, and I got into Brazilian jujitsu in 1991.

Joel Kinnaman

Nobody wants to be depressed - everybody's trying to feel better; when they strive and fail, it's all the more poignant.

Thad Cochran

I don't know of anything that has depressed me more than seeing what I saw yesterday in my state.

Daron Malakian

I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.

Tom Bissell

My fiction-writing DNA shows in how I think about prose, how I think about the page, how I think nonfiction stories should work. And every piece of nonfiction I write, I want it to have fictional texture.

Christian McKay

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Cary Fukunaga

I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.

Allan Gurganus

When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

Mark Billingham

More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective.

Annie Baker

I'm really trying to stop setting my plays in this one fictional town in Vermont.

David Guterson

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

Bob Woods

The story could be set in some fictional place, but it wasn't. They made it personal. They plopped it down in a specific place. People in a small town take a lot of pride in who they are, and that's not who they are. This isn't New York. And then set it in 1963, right? In 1963, they'd make fun of a man if he wore shorts.

Julia Glass

I'm a fictional monogamist - I can only work on one thing at a time - but each novel starts growing in my head when I'm about midway through the previous novel.

David Kim

One of the fundamental premises of this Bible is that the gospel changes everything. If this is true, how does the gospel change the very thing we spend most of our waking hours doing - work.

David Cummings

Imagine working 20% smarter instead of 20% longer...Work-life balance and startup success at any stage aren't mutually exclusive. There are enough hours in the day to be effective and present.

David Cross

I would say just stop watching me, I guess, at this point. That is what I do, and it probably is, in some way, a bit of a lecture. I can see how that's not something that would be enticing for you to watch in a stand-up hour.

David Suzuki

All those hours exploring the great outdoors made me more resilient and confident.

Mark Adams

We spent thousands of man hours tracking down the problem,

William Shakespeare

To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I love acting, but I have two little kids, and it's 14 hours a day out of the house. You don't get that time back.

Bill Rodgers

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

Bernie Mac

The Bernie Mac Show' is my life. It's the truth, and I'm not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.

Helen Sharman

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

Eric Ripert

I don't think I have an obsession, however I do eat chocolate every day.

Kat Graham

I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

Sarah Parish

I don't think anyone's life is totally wonderful, however it looks from outside.

Gary Bettman

We plan to play a season however it happens.

Suzanne Anarde

One thing I'll miss is his sense of humor, however warped it may be.

Karl Lagerfeld

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

Arthur Doyle

I have learned never to ridicule any man's opinion, however strange it may seem

Bill Belichick

I don't know, ... Day to day. We'll take it day by day. That's the way it's been for the last however many months. That's, I think, the only way you can do it.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Jonathan Todd

What they have done is insufficient. It's now two years since the decision.

John Felmy

We're in uncharted territory. We haven't experienced something like this since the 1980's.

Isla Fisher

You know, I didn't get to go to university because I've been acting since I was a kid.

Kristy McNichol

I say to my mother all the time, 'You're the child.' And she says, 'Yeah, you're the mother.' I've been that way with her since I was 11.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Randy Pausch

Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

Jack Toney

Timing matters. It typically takes a week or so, but after the sessions begin, it could take longer.

Harry Triguboff

We can't express ourselves always at the time we should. Sometimes it takes time.